Amazing Animals!

Happy July everyone!  I have taken a small break from blogging in the month of June to take care of personal life.  I truly used June as a month to have a summer break and relax.

As I enter July, I have been working on some little projects and started with updating my Learning How to Research with Amazing Animals unit. It's still free and twice as big as before and FILLED with goodies to make research in Kindergarten fun and developmentally appropriate.

Take a look at this FREE fun:

This unit introduces making dioramas for animals after completing a Kinder-friendly research map.  The diorama also includes a rubric for students to know what things need to be added to the diorama. I also added labels for the 5 items on the rubric for the diorama.

 

 Now students can begin their non-fiction books about their animals.  I added first draft writing paper to this unit so students take ownership of the their work and edit it themselves.

This unit also has publishing paper and a table of contents for their book..

Here is a finished book form one of my cuties:

If you want to grab this freebie, click the cover below.

Speaking of animals...

I am off to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana next week for a mission trip.  I will be around so many animals and can't wait!

Animal Research Project

We have been learning about animals for the past few weeks and really showed off our learning with an animal research project.  Here is the finished product:

We attached a rubric to the back of our projects and colored in each of the things that living things needs when we added them to our projects.

To make the project, each student chose an animal based on a set of Pebble books I checked out from the library.  We used the books and the website, Pebble Go, to learn about our animals.

Pebble Go also helped us with research skills and allowed us to integrate technology into our learning.  They LOVED using it!

It is a VERY useful sight for kinders because it meant for emergent readers.  The site is written in kid friendly language and reads the information to students.  It also has videos of the animals and allows students to listen to the sounds the animal makes.

We also wrote books about our animals that included a table of contents and information we learned about our animals.  Of course we dedicated our books, too!  (They LOVE that dedication stamp!)

We used many organizers and such to creat these projects.  You can get them in my shop as a freebie.

Happy Sunday, everyone!